Pelosi told reporters that she agreed that the president has all of the authorities that he needs in the authorizations to use military force passed by Congress previously.

“All of the authorities are there. That doesn’t mean I want all of them to be used, especially boots on the ground,” she said. “But I definitely think the president has all of the authority he needs by dint of legislation that was passed in 2001 and 2003.”

She appeared to be referring to the authorizations to use military force passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the 2002 authorization to use force in Iraq. Neither of those authorizations have expired, although the official White House position is that the Iraq authorization should be repealed.

Oh, the same authorities granted based on what the dems have called Bush/Cheney lies to invade Iraq for oil? THOSE authorities?

A senior Democratic aide briefed on the meeting disputed McConnell’s characterization of Obama’s remarks. “Whether intentionally or not, Senator McConnell’s comments mischaracterize the tone and the substance of the meeting. The President was very clear that he would keep Congress in the loop.”

If only one person in ten makes a million dollars and the rest make none at all then the average earnings are $100,000. It is a worthless statement.

From the article it is numbers pulled from ages 15 and up. The kids sleep more, work less. The adults work more, sleep less in general. But everybody sleeps some. Not everybody works. It is a totally bullshit pile of stupid.

I read this and felt my IQ drop precipitously just from being exposed to it.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO): “I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.” (April 2, 2013, Denver Post forum)

If you voted for this Rep, then you should be ashamed. You should question your ability to vote ever again. The magnitudinous stupidity of your decision nearly tore the fabric of space and time. A little bit of the universe’s poo came out in fear of the sheer depth of her cretinism.

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From an astute co-worker, Crazy Cat Lady…

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Wow, a self-beating sea-lion.

There’s a joke in there somewhere.

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Man proves conclusively to his girlfriend that he has no:

a) Guts

b) Balls

c) Spine

d) Steely eyes

e) Firm handshake

f) All of the above, and more

Way to go, sport – you reek of wildflowers and shame. When you duck a ball and let your girlfriend get hit in the face with a baseball, then it is conclusive – you are either a sea cucumber or a terrestrial slug. The course of your life is plotted – a long meandering path downhill.

A kinder gentler co-worker said “It was probably instinctive.” Yeah, but I know a lot of people that instinctively try to save the people they love. Sorry, but yes, there comes a point at which we should judge people. Not everyone gets a passing grade the first time, some re-take the test and pass and go on to excel, some fail. It doesn’t bode well for this girl, however. His failure when supposedly his Oxytocin levels are going to be at a lifetime high… ouch… because I doubt he can sucessfully reproduce if he’s even allowed to try.

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Here we have the Happiest Petting Zoo in the World. (no, not that kind of place) Supposedly you can just walk up and touch the wild things with your bare hands because they are so well fed it overcomes all instincts to kill and maim tourists.

“the animals are just full. ‘We feed all the animals, especially the predators.’”

(excuse me while I check my license to see if I was born yesterday)

Nope. Not born yesterday.

They feed the animals massive doses of valium and then give a ketamine chaser. OR, they really do feed the animals well… with other visitors.

DHS purchasing drones capable of tracking moving and stationary targets and determining armed/unarmed status, capable of painting a target with IR laser from 60,000 feet (read that in the unredacted RFQ)

… a girl. In one of the least proudest moments our president is shooting like a girl.

No, that’s an insult to girls. Sorry girls.

He shoots like a beginner.

The President had stern warnings for anyone who would p-shop the image of him during one of his all-the-time gun-luvin’ outings.

“This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.”

I was shocked, SHOCKED when I saw the sacrilege against our Savior-in-Chief Obama over at Ace of Spades. It was a travesty, I tell you. See the travesty below? He’s gonna try to shoot BUGS. Bugs Bunny is an American icon… you can’t shoot Bugs.

The guy can’t even do a PR gun shoot properly. He didn’t bother to learn where to place the butt of the gun, I highly doubt he got a clay target while at the horizontal, and his center of gravity is all wrong. I’ve seen many many long-time shooters and this guy ain’t one of them. So I’m kind of insulted when he claims to be a gun-lover. No, really insulted.

See the original below.

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An interesting side note. G00gle is handling Breitbart as if it were a malicious website. Yeah, Breitbart is about as suspicious as they come.

Clever. What next? The NRA website? Iowahawk? Hookers and Booze?

Think what an honor it would be for G00gle to care enough to try to shut you down.

But some say “nah nah nah nah nah nah nah” with their fingers in their ears. People like Harry Reid, W(hinger)-NV. He’s just given birth to a whole new party of clueless people in painful denial. He’s like an Occupier with a suit. I hope that the internet sags under the number of times he’s quoted a poll.

“I’m not much of a pollster guy. As everyone knows, there isn’t a poll in America that had me having any chance of being re-elected, but I got re-elected,” he told TheDC.

“We sent in an informant to buy drugs. The dealer said, ‘I don’t have drugs, but I could sell you 15 bottles of Tide,’ ” Sprague told The Daily. “Upstairs in the drug dealer’s bedroom was about 14 bottles of Tide laundry soap. We think [users] are trading it for drugs.”

Police in Gresham, Ore., said most Tide theft is perpetrated by “users feeding their habit.”

“They’ll do it right in front of a cop car — buying heroin or methamphetamine with Tide,” said Detective Rick Blake of the Gresham Police Department. “We would see people walking down the road with six, seven bottles of Tide. They were so blatant about it.”

I’m going to sit and wait for someone to notice something about these last few paragraphs. If no one says anything I will conclude that Cruel Wife is right and I am indeed “A Sheldon”. That’s painfully blunt talk, there, and we use it to mean “Yeah, technically smart but functionally as dumb as a bag of hammers”. I am pretty sure she wasn’t implying “genius” in any way, shape, or form.

When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne. Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren’t forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office.

In our New Year’s poll, when asked what news event they fear most about 2012, Americans by a margin of two-to-one said Obama’s reelection. Only 16 percent said they fear the Democrat won’t win a second term, while 33 percent said they fear four more years.

The problem is when you read 2:1 against it is easy to miss the fact that the “2” part is 33% of voters. Thirty three percent accounts for the strict party-line conservatives that will never like a liberal in the WH. But only 16% fear that Obama won’t win a second term… now that is noteworthy. But even that doesn’t tell you how many people would likely vote in either direction.

One thing we can say for sure is that none of the presidential candidates that are likely to survive til election day are worth a fake nickel.

San Fran Nan is telling us that she’s going to leak. Where are her DC-strength Depends™ undergarments for pissy women with control issues? She’d better run down and find some quickly.

Nancy Pelosi:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” – source: The Hill

The real question is why would she say this? What could she hope to achieve? Implied very strongly is that Newt Gingrich should suspend his campaign in the light of potentially damaging information.

blackmail [ˈblækˌmeɪl] n.

1. (Law) the act of attempting to obtain money by intimidation, as by threats to disclose discreditable information

2.the exertion of pressure or threats, esp unfairly, in an attempt to influence someone’s actions

vb(tr)

1. (Law) to exact or attempt to exact (money or anything of value) from (a person) by threats or intimidation; extort

2. to attempt to influence the actions of (a person), esp by unfair pressure or threats

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Not sure if “implied” would hold up in court, but this has all the feel of a store owner being shaken down to pay “fire insurance” because it would be a real tragedy if something were to happen to the owner’s building if the boys weren’t there to keep an eye on the place.

Her statement is not a lie, but wait until she turns on “spin control”. Then we’ll see lies. Already the implications are enough to insult the listener because we all recognize her speech for what it is – threats. And when she does deny it or try to excuse it…

1. Stelamendacium: an arrogantly stupid lie that makes the recipient want to beat the teller to a bloody pulp.

2. Stelamenpunirist: someone who tells an arrogantly stupid lie that casts doubt on the listener’s intelligence and who rightfully deserves to be beaten to a bloody pulp.

But until that point, all we can do is arrest her for blackmail. Newt Gingrich handled it well:

Gingrich reacted to Pelosi’s comments by thanking her for an “early Christmas gift.”

He also said Pelosi would be violating House rules and abusing the ethics process if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation.

“That is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House,” Gingrich said in New York following a meeting with Donald Trump. “She’s now prepared to totally abuse the ethics process.”

But facts are facts – Pelosi engaged in blackmail, by threatening the disclosure of information with the intent to influence someone’s behavior. Democrats would do well to treat her as if she were political nerve gas and abandon her, but I prefer that they embrace her and her poisonous nature.

I know Newt Gingrich isn’t a favorite among many conservatives and I can only respond with this: Every single one of the Republican candidates is better than what we have in the White House right now. Without exception, every single one of them. So before going nuclear on him and threatening to not vote or making a statement by voting for some other candidate who cannot possibly win, you’d be better served to remember that.

I have had more than enough of Christians that get up on their soapboxes and engage in behavior modification speech. Telling Christians that they are the reason for the commercialization of Christmas, that to be good Christians we should have two manger displays (one inside and one outside our homes), how we should speak in wishing someone a fantastic Christmas, and how to pick out Christmas cards (the expectations of which I find offensive)… I have only one thing to say, with as much love as I possibly can… stop worrying about how other people live their lives, go have a Merry Christmas, and stuff it.

My Personal “Things” – Don’t Peek

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